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by gherkinnn 9mo ago
Opus 4.5 catches all sorts of things a linter would not, and with little manual prompting at that. Missing DB indexes, forgotten migration scenarios, inconsistencies with similar services, an overlooked edge case. Now I'm getting a rob
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by gherkinnn 9mo ago
In Norse mythology the first man Ask was carved out of a piece of ash tree and the first woman Embla out of a piece of elm. Ash is a good choice for tool handles and elm for constructing homes.
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by gherkinnn 9mo ago
> People who love using AI to create software are loving it because they don’t value the act of creating & understanding the software. Speak for yourself, OP. I have my gripes with LLMs but they absolutely can and will help me create
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> What we can do, however is uncover the lives of these peasant households through modeling. > So the models we’re going to set up are going to be most applicable in that space: towards the end of antiquity in the Mediterranean. >
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by gherkinnn 9mo ago
I get paid to work with Shadcn and was equally surprised by its radio button. I can't see why Radix implements it this way, and it doesn't work without JS either. What I do like about Shadcn, is that its components are yours to mo
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by gherkinnn 9mo ago
I don't think any of the Trump crowd thought as far as these legal ramifications. Send in the Little Green Men, annex, and figure things out as they happen.
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by gherkinnn 9mo ago
Ban targeted ads while you're at it and throw around the most savage fines for companies who don't comply. The world will be better for it.
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by gherkinnn 9mo ago
Blaming a company that allowed bots to hold "sensual" conversations with children? An outrage! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/15/meta-ai-c...
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by gherkinnn 9mo ago
Opus 4.5 is at a point where it is genuinely helpful. I've got what I want and the bubble may burst for all I care. 640K of RAM ought to be enough for anybody.
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by gherkinnn 9mo ago
Shocking. I enjoyed Black Mirror from the start but found it a bit on the nose. A Prime Minister fucking a pig? That's a bit much. And before you know it, certain rumours of David Cameron arise.
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The M1 hurt their future hardware sales, as now, 5 years later, it remains a viable machine. The M1 MacBook Air has become a bit of a meme.
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by gherkinnn 9mo ago
Tahoe is a bit shit, yes. But I was there for both Vista and Windows 8 and they were both utterly unusable. Vista ate every bit of RAM it could find, had severe driver issues and riddled with instabilities. It would not run on half the hard
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by gherkinnn 9mo ago
The exact same thing applies to development. How many things broke because of a React rewrite or moving to micro services? I wish the average dev would recognise this.
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by gherkinnn 9mo ago
This conflates two things. One is LLMs writing code. Not everything and not for everyone. But they are useful for most of the code being written. It is useful. What it does not do (yet, if ever) is bridging the gap from "idea" to
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by gherkinnn 9mo ago
Remember when AI was supposed to cure cancer? It is scumbags expanding on their nasty ways. Now watch the vampires at Amazon extend their undercut-and-absorb techniques on every single web shop, whether the operators like it or not.
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by gherkinnn 10mo ago
Painfully true. A lot of YouTube on LLM coding tools has become just that. Make quick bucks, look it generated a dashboard of some sort (why is it always dashboards?) and a high polished story of someone vibing a copy of a successful Saas a
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by gherkinnn 10mo ago
LLM agents can be a bit like slot machines. The more the merrier. And at least two generate continuous shitposts for their companies Slack. That said, having one write code and a clean context review it is helpful.
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by gherkinnn 10mo ago
As an experiment, think of a space that is improved by ads.
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I like this and can't wait to see what loopy things people will come up with. Of all the ways "smart" could have been injected in to Lego these days, this is as robust as it gets.
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by gherkinnn 10mo ago
Yes of course. That's the one I meant to write.
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by gherkinnn 10mo ago
I wish. I have all the rules and skill files and constraints in place and yet Claude 4.5 Sonnet continues to do strange things beyond a medium scale. But it does save me time in many other aspects, so I can't complain.
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by gherkinnn 10mo ago
Related to the definition of Battleship for the fellow pedantic: What is a tank https://acoup.blog/2022/05/06/collections-when-is-a-tank-not... Less humorously, the proposed Trump class "Battleship&quo
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by gherkinnn 10mo ago
Meta is truly changing the lives of millions and millions of people for the worse.
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by gherkinnn 10mo ago
Optimising for "code is easy to change" hits that balance well enough. Start with a loose bag of functions. These are easy to compose in to larger pieces of functionality. And, this is key, easy to decompose when things change. On
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by gherkinnn 10mo ago
There is no winning, is there? Half of HN wants browsers to revert to document readers and the other half wants HTML and CSS to do what JS can. A small minority then insists that we should get rid of HTML and CSS entirely and start from scr
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by gherkinnn 10mo ago
> This obviously means "human" in this context. In the abstract yes. In practice I mainly hear this meme spouted by trad-masculine-sparta types.
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by gherkinnn 10mo ago
If there was any truth do this then Russia (arguably a "hard place" for most of its history) would be brimming with strong men (it is always "men" in these discussions) who then create which good times exactly?
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Why can't this meme die? It is so obviously rubbish. Good times allow for a people to divert more energy to specialisation and growth and might and art and then displace the "hardened" people.
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by gherkinnn 10mo ago
Unrelated to Actions. Jared Palmer, the author of this Tweet, has done well for himself. I remember him as the author of Turborepo which Vercel gobbled up a few years ago. https://jaredpalmer.com/about
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by gherkinnn 10mo ago
These puritan clowns would first need to define what constitutes "nudity". But then this entire endeavour is just another pretext to increase digital control. The ambiguity of "nudity" only helps their cause.

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